The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1887-04-23
BILL ARp's LETTER.
~ WHICH HE DEALS IN FAtIE AND
FIGURES.

man WHO come from good STOCK ana
have been brought up with proper
IDEAS Of the prorlietles Of life should
senI, to fight a duel. wonder where
,lay Get such foolish idea OF honor,
il used to prevail. ] know, but we
.bought that modern civilization had
about wiped out that stain-that
stipma upon olr hunanity-that
sancho Panzo sentiment that would
deht & windmill because it turned.
The question that concerns society
is. how do young men acquire such
aotioHs? OF course they do not ac-
,,pye them ut home, for | do not
suppose there is respectable parent
IN the State who would teach his son
shst it was right under any ciroum-
stances to send or accept Challenge.
Dueling has had its day and is no"
HDder the ban. Ben Hill gave its
hideous corpse the last kick III his
memorable reply 10 Alex stevens,
snd be deserved a monument for that
tftor nothing else,
But when college oogs run off {"
aght a duel, it is o damaging ref1ec-
ion on that institution and upon our
aestem of education. There is ALREADY
4 suspicion pervading tile puhli"
niud, that q college course ~ u risk,
ueril, hazard and have heard
many reflective father sax: 4 am
afraid to send my boy to college!
So many of the graduates return
home with bad habits or bad priuci-
ules or exalted self esteem nr Il chronic
indolence that parents are discouf-
aged and disappointed. If the boys
come home as tile family ornaments,
they soon become the family expense,
Their Incidence is establis he'd ana
they are drones in the hive. They
read all the modern novels and can
talk critically and learnedly, but
they are of no account. They are
capable but there isnothipg for them
to do that corresponds with their
mental culture and physical relnct-
ance to work. They will not go back
to the farm or workshop aud the
professions are already overcrowded
Or rDarse there are many bright ana
honorable exceptions. but our people
are taking notice that, as a general
rule, the successful men of the day
are not college graduates and those
who are are the sons Of poor parents
A boy who never did any work AT
home is in a bad fix to go to college.
Work is the tling-a habit OF work
chop the wood, make the fires, feed
the stock, plant the garden and cul-
tlvate it; help all around about the
house and black his own shoes; use
the hammer and the saw, mend the
broken chairs and bring water, do
something that will save expense and
that will help-help Is the word.
Every child should be taught to help,
that it is a duty to help. When the
boy has been raised this way and Is
ready for college send him for one
year, and If he is getting too uppity
and biggoty then lot him stay al
home a year and work some more
and then send him back again. He
can just drop back to the next class
and lose nothing. But If you send
Q boy to college who never worked al
home, and let him stay there three
or four years, in nine cases out
ten he will be no account. He is Il
finished gentleman.
The perils Of education are alarm
Ing. mean education without moral
ana Industrial training. Teachers
ana professors have but little to do
with this. Their sole business is to
teach from the books. If the pupil
stands well in mathematics, in Greek
and Latin and logic and rhetoric and
philosophy, he Is doing splendid
lhat ls the big thing. In fact, 1t is
everything SO far as the teacher is
concerned; and almost everything
Win the parents. The result ~ that
thousands Of boys are being educated
~ experts IN Incidence, In avoiding
work, and IN many eases they resort
70 forgery and embexzlelnent and
obtaining money under false preten'
ees' Il is now An open secret at the
north that education increase crime,
10y Just = little but Immensely. As
.'''teracy decreases crime increases
- gebmstrichl ratio. They are
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